On The Avenue: Christmas Throwback

What better day to blog about Christmas, than Saint Patrick’s Day, right?

It feels a bit ridiculous to reminisce about the winter holidays when it is a sunny 80 degrees outside, but since this was the best Christmas of my life, I feel compelled to do a quick blog post. I’m incredibly tardy, but I work hard at my job and play hard with my kiddo, and nap hard when he naps. That doesn’t leave much time for this—but I do want to hang on to the memories if I can! So here goes…

If you’ve never had the luxury of spending Christmastime with a toddler, I highly recommend that you try it one day. While this was not Doster’s first Christmas, it is certainly the first one that he could engage in the fun on a high-awareness level and it was so joyful experiencing everything through his eyes!

Skipping ahead to the good stuff – I’m happy to present a few videos of Christmas Morning.

Doster was very consistent that he wanted a bike, maracas and a helmet for Christmas. As you can see, he was very confused when he didn’t see them.

Here are just a few stream of stream of conscious things that I want to remember.

· Obsession with Christmas lights

Sheer joy when opening his avengers action figures at Dawkins Family Christmas
Past-bedtime-ness at full capacity on every night
Zoo lights
Cookie decorating
Very chill with Santa (no meltdowns – just stuck to the typical “bike, helmet, maracas)
Love of Rudolph (the song, not the clay-mation class, maybe next year?)
I had to travel a lot for work the weeks before the holidays, it was tough on both of us!
Adoration of the neighbor’s yard with crazy decorations
Confusion about Christmas vs Christmastime (“Is today Christmas mommy?” - everyday)
Christmas parties
Stocking obsession
Discovery of Reese’s peanut butter cups